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January 1944.High above the frozen heart of Germany, the morning sky is carved with thin white contrails stretching from horizon to horizon. Hundreds of B-17 Flying Fortresses push eastward in a single unbroken stream, engines thundering, their aluminum skins flashing cold light in the winter sun. Inside those bombers sit crews who have spent two years living with the same grim reality: at some point, the escorts will turn back… and the Luftwaffe will come for them.

But on this day, something impossible happens.

Instead of peeling away at the “graveyard line,” a new silhouette climbs past the bomber stream — long-winged, silver, fast. A fighter carrying fuel tanks and still climbing. A fighter no German commander expected to see this deep in the Reich. The P-51 Mustang.

For the first time, American bombers are not alone over Germany.

This World War II story reveals how a forgotten low-altitude aircraft became the most important escort fighter of the war — and how a desperate gamble by British engineers transformed an underpowered machine into the weapon that finally broke the Luftwaffe. You’ll discover how the Merlin-powered Mustang went from rejected design… to the aircraft that rewritten air supremacy in Europe. And how Big Week, the Berlin raids, and a new offensive escort doctrine changed the fate of the entire air war.

Watch to see how the Mustang turned hopeless daylight raids into a campaign that Germany could no longer stop — and why its arrival marked the exact moment the skies over Europe changed forever.

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